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Monday, 20 October 2008

"Report Jan-Oct." trojan

This fake email contains an EXE in a ZIP designed to look like a Word document (complete with authentic looking icon), in this case "Statement1-10.doc .exe" (there are 75 spaces in the filename that blogger strips out)

Subject: [name] Report Jan-Oct.From: "Clara Slaughter"

Dear Customer,

As you requested, we are sending you this report with details on your accounttransactions made between 1/1/2008 and 10/1/2008.

At your service,Clara

The attached ZIP file is called Statement1-10.zip. VirusTotal shows detection is poor with what look like generic detections only.

If you mail filter allows it, you should block EXEs in ZIP files. Postini allows this, I guess other filtering services do too.